Season Two
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| #39 | Carmilla (by J. Sheridan LeFanu) |
Detailed |
| Writer(s): John Douglas, Graham Pomeroy | Air Date: 11/20/1981 |
| Production Location: CBC Toronto | Producer: Bill Howell |
| Featuring: Dorothy Ann Haug, Eve Crawford, Douglas Campbell, Maureen Fitzgerald, Eric House, Martha Henry, Douglas Rain |
| Commercial Synopsis: A wealthy man and his daughter Margaret welcome a strange guest to their castle. Soon Margaret is frighteningly weak, and other women are dying all around her. Is she ill or just feeling drained? (DHPA) |
| #40 | In the Eye of the Beholder | Detailed |
| Writer(s): Burke Campbell | Air Date: 11/27/1981 |
| Production Location: CBC Toronto | Producer: Stephen Katz |
| Featuring: Budd Knapp, Wayne Robson, Geoffrey Bowes, Marian Waldman, Sam D. Beresford |
| Commercial Synopsis: A crusty old farmer receives a visit from a mysterious young man who has come to extract a hideous revenge for a wrong committed twenty years in the past. (NPR) |
| #41 | Cemetery Stop | Detailed |
| Writer(s): Margery Stewart | Air Date: 12/4/1981 |
| Production Location: CBC Toronto | Producer: Bill Howell |
| Featuring: Neil Munro, Jayne Eastwood, Murray Westgate, Alan Fawcett, Frank Perry, Alan Lebson, Elva Mai Hoover, Marian Waldman |
| Commercial Synopsis: Only the driver of a bus can see the mysterious woman who asks to be let off at the cemetery night after night. When she calls on him to come with her, his guilty conscience impels him to follow. (DHPA) |
| #42 | In the Name of the Father | Detailed |
| Writer(s): Janet Bonellie | Air Date: 12/11/1981 |
| Production Location: CBC Toronto | Producer: Stephen Katz |
| Featuring: Dixie Seatle, Chris Wiggins, Ruth Springford, Nicky Guadagni, Hugh Webster, Eve Crawford |
| Commercial Synopsis: A writer on the point of a nervous breakdown goes for a vacation to a small town on the east coast. There she becomes convinced that the town folk are all involved in a horrifying pagan ritual shrouded in secrecy. A chilling tale of psychological terror in the tradition of Henry James. (CBC) |
| #43 | Baby Doll | Detailed |
| Writer(s): Larry LeClair | Air Date: 12/18/1981 |
| Production Location: CBC Toronto | Producer: Fred Diehl |
| Featuring: Elva Mai Hoover, Jay Bowen, Jimmy Morris, Ruth Springford, Claude Ray |
| Commercial Synopsis: A mysterious antique doll transforms the lives of a childless couple - and not for the better. When his wife is lost to its vile needs, a frightened husband tries to end the horror. (DHPA) |
| #44 | Reunion at the Victory Café | Detailed |
| Writer(s): Tom MacDonnell | Air Date: 1/1/1982 |
| Production Location: CBC Toronto | Producer: Fred Diehl |
| Featuring: Roger Dunn, Nonnie Griffin, Henry Comber, Frank Perry, Terrence Durant, Michael Wincott, Maxine Miller, Sean Mulcahay, George Murray, Karen Marklinger |
| Commercial Synopsis: A man takes his wife to the London café where his father died during a WWII V2 rocket attack, only to experience the event themselves thanks to a mysterious time warp. (N25) |
| #45 | Gerald | Detailed |
| Writer(s): Bill Gray | Air Date: 1/8/1982 |
| Production Location: CBC Toronto | Producer: [producer] |
| Featuring: Danny Higham, Mary Pirie, Neil Dainard, Billie Mae Richards, Eric Peterson, John Stocker |
| Commercial Synopsis: A 10-year-old boy, the son of a small town minister, becomes the devastating instrument for the powers of darkness. (NPR) |
| #46 | Mindrift | Detailed |
| Writer(s): F. Peter Lee | Air Date: 1/15/1982 |
| Production Location: Clack Sound Studios, NYC | Producer: Tom Courtenay-Clack |
| Featuring: Peter Lee, Bob Kaliban, Herb Hartig, Jenna Whidden, Hank Garrett |
| Commercial Synopsis: An amnesia victim slowly discovers that he's been programmed to do a very specific job. (CBC) |
| #47 | Your Fortune in Twenty Words or Less | Detailed |
| Writer(s): Larry LeClair | Air Date: 1/22/1982 |
| Production Location: CBC Edmonton | Producer: Lawrie Seligman |
| Featuring: David Ferry, Greg Rogers, Jack Wilson, Wendel Smith, Brian Taylor |
| Commercial Synopsis: The story of a carnival fortune-teller Benny Larsen, who is visited by an old master of the art, Mercurian. Benny craves the gift to see into the future and Mercurian gives it to him, but the results are not what Benny expected. (CBC) |
| #48 | Teddy | Detailed |
| Writer(s): Stephen Freygood | Air Date: 1/29/1982 |
| Production Location: CBC Toronto | Producer: Peter Boretski |
| Featuring: Maxine Miller, Nancy Kerr, Frank Perry, Maggie Morris, Jennifer Phipps, Jon Granik, John Stocker |
| Commercial Synopsis: Six-year-old Teddy is possessed with the power of mental telepathy. He is sent to a psychiatrist who turns out to be telepathic and who attempts to coerce Teddy into a strange scheme to take control over the world. (NPR) |
| #49 | Child's Play | Detailed |
| Writer(s): Arthur Samuels | Air Date: 2/5/1982 |
| Production Location: CBC Toronto | Producer: Bill Howell |
| Featuring: Eve Crawford, John Stocker, Denise Fergusson, Ron Hartman, Jon Granik, Marian Waldman, Melleny Brown |
| Commercial Synopsis: A young couple return to the country house where the woman's parents were murdered many years before. (NPR) |
| #50 | The Club of Dead Men (by J. Wentworth Day) |
Detailed |
| Writer(s): John Douglas | Air Date: 2/12/1982 |
| Production Location: CBC Toronto | Producer: Fred Diehl |
| Featuring: Rex Hagon, Alan Fawcett, Anne Butler, Gillie Fenwick, Sean Mulcahy, Robert Haley, John Douglas, Michael Wincott |
| Commercial Synopsis: A Canadian student at Cambridge discovers that membership in a secret diabolical society does not necessarily conclude with the member's death. (NPR) |
| #51 | The Thinking Room | Detailed |
| Writer(s): Tim Wynne-Jones | Air Date: 2/19/1982 |
| Production Location: CBC Toronto | Producer: Bill Howell |
| Featuring: Alan Fawcett, Henry Ramer, Rosemary Radcliffe, Richard Donat, Bonnie Brooks, Hugh Webster |
| Commercial Synopsis: A would-be suicide has trouble deciding what to do with his life until he meets an encouraging group of fellow travelers who place him in a room where he can finally hear his own thoughts. (NPR) |
| #52 | The Porch Light | Detailed |
| Writer(s): Randy Brown | Air Date: 2/26/1982 |
| Production Location: CBC Calgary | Producer: Bill Gray |
| Featuring: Heather Lea McCallum, David Ferry, Dennis Corey, Robert Coons, Stephen Hare, Chris Youngren |
| Commercial Synopsis: An innocent young couple purchase a house in the country and move into it in mid-winter only to discover it has more "character" than they can handle. (CBC) |
| #53 | Volcano | Detailed |
| Writer(s): Roy (T. E.) Sallows | Air Date: 3/5/1982 |
| Production Location: CBC Edmonton | Producer: Lawrie Seligman |
| Featuring: Brian Hall, Brian Taylor, Gordon Marriott, Maureen Thomas, Blair Haynes |
| Commercial Synopsis: A psychologist using unorthodox techniques attempts to revitalize the career of a washed-out boxer, with explosive results. (N25) |
| #54 | The Monkey's Raincoat | Detailed |
| Writer(s): Charles Tidler | Air Date: 3/12/1982 |
| Production Location: CBC Montréal | Producer: John Juliani |
| Featuring: David Conner, Vlasta Vrana, Dean Hagopian, Michael Rudder, Timothy Webster, Ronald Lee, Robert Parsons |
| Commercial Synopsis: Charles Tidler's futuristic tale of Presidential elections and assassinations, where the run for the highest office in the land is also a run for your life. (N25) |
| #55 | From My Appointed Place Below (by Sir Walter Scott) |
Detailed |
| Writer(s): John Douglas | Air Date: 3/19/1982 |
| Production Location: CBC Toronto | Producer: Fred Diehl |
| Featuring: Hugh Webster, Chris Wiggins, John Douglas, Sandy Webster, Frank Perry, John Bayliss, Grant Cowan |
| Commercial Synopsis: A tale of the power that an ancient laird of the castle holds over his subjects, even in death. The setting is the Scottish highlands in the 1680’s. (NPR) |
| #56 | The Old Post Road | Detailed |
| Writer(s): William Lane | Air Date: 3/26/198x |
| Production Location: CBC Toronto | Producer: Bill Howell |
| Featuring: Jayne Eastwood, Geoffrey Bowes, Sandy Webster, Jon Granik, Michael Wincott, David Calderisi, Alan Fawcett |
| Commercial Synopsis: A car crash on a rural road leads to a bewildering series of occurrences. (NPR) |
| #57 | The Debt | Detailed |
| Writer(s): John Richard Wright | Air Date: 4/2/1982 |
| Production Location: CBC Edmonton | Producer: Lawrie Seligman |
| Featuring: Blair Haynes, Greg Rogers, James Forsythe, Larry Reese, Stephen Walsh, Graham McPherson |
| Commercial Synopsis: A group of young college men set out one night to initiate a new boy into their fraternity with terrifying results. (NPR) |
| #58 | Harris and the Mare (by Stan Rogers) |
Detailed |
| Writer(s): John Douglas | Air Date: 4/9/1982 |
| Production Location: CBC Toronto | Producer: Bill Howell |
| Featuring: Hugh Webster, Frank Perry, Elva Mai Hoover, Richard Donat, Ken James, Marian Waldman, Arch McDonnell |
| Commercial Synopsis: Bart Neilson, a "conshie" (conscientious objector) in the First World War, discovers that his faith in his neighbors is far from reciprocal. (NPR) |
| #59 | The Jogger | Detailed |
| Writer(s): Tony Bell | Air Date: 4/16/1982 |
| Production Location: CBC Toronto | Producer: Bill Howell |
| Featuring: Neil Dainard, Linda Sorenson, Alan Fawcett, Jon Granik, John Stocker, Melleny Brown |
| Commercial Synopsis: A high school football star thirty years ago, Joe Brady is an overweight man with high blood pressure and a drinking problem. The sight of a mysterious jogger who seems to float over the landscape spurs Brady to push himself to his old level of fitness -- and to catch the jogger at all costs. (CBCA) |
| #60 | The Screaming Skull (by F. Marion Crawford) |
Detailed |
| Writer(s): Guy Babineau | Air Date: 4/23/1982 |
| Production Location: CBC Halifax | Producer: Elizabeth Fox |
| Featuring: David Bulger, Joseph Rutten, Rosemary Gilbert, John Dunsworth, Florence Patterson, Al Foster |
| Commercial Synopsis: F. Marion Crawford's creepy tale of a retired sea captain and the skull of a former shipmate's wife, which haunts him for his part in her murder. (N25) |
| #61 | Mr. Agostino | Detailed |
| Writer(s): Janet Bonellie | Air Date: 4/30/1982 |
| Production Location: CBC Toronto | Producer: William Lane |
| Featuring: Nancy Beatty, Tom Hauff, Jayne Eastwood, Barbara Gordon, John Evans, John Stocker |
| Commercial Synopsis: Losing her job was bad enough for poor Carol, but now she has to put up with recurring phone calls from a newly-arrived country boy who’s lost his contact number for a job he’d been promised. Or so he says. (N25) |
| #62 | The Road Ends at the Sea | Detailed |
| Writer(s): Tim Wynne-Jones | Air Date: 5/7/1982 |
| Production Location: CBC Toronto | Producer: William Lane |
| Featuring: Peter Dvorsky, Michael Fawkes, Barbara Gordon, Sean McCann, Alan Fawcett |
| Commercial Synopsis:
'Welcome to Purgat'ry Point.' A husband and wife who live by and run a lighthouse are visited first by a disturbed friend and then by a black freighter. (CBC) |
| #63 | The Maid's Bell (by Edith Wharton) |
Detailed |
| Writer(s): John Douglas | Air Date: 5/14/1982 |
| Production Location: CBC Toronto | Producer: William Lane |
| Featuring: Dixie Seatle, Chapelle Jaffe, Hugh Webster, Wendy Thatcher, Marian Waldman, Richard Donat, John Douglas |
| Commercial Synopsis: A young woman takes employment at an old mansion on the Hudson River at the turn of the century. She soon finds herself being drawn into a web of unspoken and inexplicable dread. (CBC) |
| #64 | A Glimpse of Eternity | Detailed |
| Writer(s): Ian Weir | Air Date: 5/28/1982 |
| Production Location: CBC Vancouver | Producer: Don Kowalchuk |
| Featuring: Norman Browning, Lee Taylor, Karen Austin, Kira Harper, Tracy Olson, Norm Grohmann |
| Commercial Synopsis: Tom Kittredge wants to live for a long, long time. Frank Marley has pioneered the drug treatment that just might help him do that. As a conscientious researcher, Frank knows that the treatment is far too experimental to try on a human being and yet the idea is irresistible. Unfortunately, the quest for immortality has unforeseen and unpleasant consequences, for both of them. (CBC) |
| #65 | Beyond the Law | Detailed |
| Writer(s): Steve Petch | Air Date: 6/4/1982 |
| Production Location: CBC Vancouver | Producer: John Juliani |
| Featuring: Betty Phillips, Patsy Ludwig, Wendy Van Reisen, Joe Golland, Hagen Baiggs, Norman Browning, Christian Bernard |
| Commercial Synopsis: Fearing for his life, a real estate developer decides to take the law into his own hands. He is suspicious of the Tenant's Association who have fought to avoid eviction, through the press. A young journalist becomes his unwitting accomplice in the vicious retalliation. (DHPA) |
| #66 | The Turn of the Blood (by Thomas Hardy) |
Detailed |
| Writer(s): Paul Bettis | Air Date: 6/11/1982 |
| Production Location: CBC Toronto | Producer: William Lane |
| Featuring: Joyce Campion, Wendy Thatcher, Michael Wincott, John Gilbert, Anthony Parr, Michael Fawkes, Louisa Martin, Maja Ardal, Gerard Parkes |
| Commercial Synopsis: In rural Wessex in the 19th century, a mysterious curse is visited on a young bride. An exotic tale of the supernatural. (CBC) |
| #67 | Reverse Image | Detailed |
| Writer(s): Arthur Samuels | Air Date: 6/18/1982 |
| Production Location: CBC CBC Montréal | Producer: John Jessop |
| Featuring: Vlasta Vrana, Lyn Jackson, Timothy Webber, Diana Fajrajsl, Philip Akin, Earl Pennington |
| Commercial Synopsis: An antique mirror provides the focus for this malevolent study of narcissism wherein image and imagination oblige our protagonist, Norman, to confront his alter-ego, Namron. (CBC) |
| #68 | Teig O'Kane and the Corpse (by Douglas Hyde) |
Detailed |
| Writer(s): John Douglas | Air Date: 6/25/1982 |
| Production Location: CBC St. Johns | Producer: Glen Tilley |
| Featuring: Frank Holden, Pat Vern, Michael Cook, Mack Barfoot, David McNee, Lisa Herd |
| Commercial Synopsis: In his classic collection of Irish folktales, W.B. Yeats called this one 'a magnificent story'. Like many of the great legends and fairy tales, it is both rollicking and shuddery in its depiction of a wild Irish boyo who gets his comeuppance from The Old Ones, a malicious band of elves whose special job it is to punish young scalliwags (sic) like Teig. For the whole of the blackly comic night, Teig must drag a corpse on his back over half Ireland, desperately trying to bury it before dawn. It's not just that the dead man is talkative. Every possible grave is already occupied and what angry tenants say and do to poor Teig must be heard to be believed. (CBC) |
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